For the record

'Figures confirm fear of "recession crime wave"' (News, last week) listed Dorset police among forces reporting increases in burglary in the past year across England and Wales. We should clarify that between 1 April and 31 July 2008, burglaries in Dorset fell by 10.7 per cent, a 10-year low for such crime, with some 65 fewer victims; a reduction of 7 per cent overall has been achieved.

'Nice prawns, shame about the chemical cocktail' (OFM, last week) was accompanied by the panel: 'Prawn cocktail: The chemicals used in one Vietnamese prawn pond'. The substances listed were from research into chemical traces found in prawns around the world, not just in Vietnam. Two of those listed, chloramphenicol and nitrofurans, are banned in Vietnam.

'Bo, the teenage satirist, storms into West End' (News, last week) mentioned a song lyric about 'Klinefelter's syndrome, an inherited condition that endows a person with both sexual organs'. This is incorrect. It is a chromosonal abnormality that is not inherited; those with the condition are genetically male with fully functioning male sex organs and symptoms can be improved with medication.

An incorrect agency picture caption in 'Revealed: the Great Escape of 1918' (News, last week) described 'British PoWs during the First World War', but they were captured Russian troops in the Carpathians in 1915.